Echoes of Blood – FIONA GLASS

Taking the High Road

Oh, how fascinating: there's going to be an archaeological excavation along High Street - the mountain and the presumed Roman road that runs up and over it - this August.…

Read Around the Rainbow: Setting Books where you Live

24 Jun 202224 Jun 2022

I chose the topic for this month’s webring blogpost, but oddly I tend not to set books in the place I currently live. I’m not sure why that is, but…

Two go to a Roman exhibition

I'd been trying to get to Carlisle ever since my friend Les Morris first told me about a Roman exhibition at the city's Tullie House museum. Les is a member…

Rainbow snippets: Echoes of Blood

The Rainbow Snippets FB group encourages members to post a few lines from one of their books each Saturday and then link back to it on the group. Saturday has suddenly crept…

Art…

Read around the Rainbow: Weird Research

29 Apr 202229 Apr 2022

When this topic was first suggested, I wasn’t sure I could write about it. Most of my books are contemporary, with backdrops that I’m reasonably familiar with (archaeology, old buildings)…

Third place in the QI awards

2 Mar 20222 Mar 2022

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I'd been nominated in two different categories in this year's QI Awards, organised by Queer Indie. Well, I'm delighted to say that I…

Two years of self-publishing

2 Feb 20222 Feb 2022

It's hard to believe that it's two whole years since I self-published my first book - but Echoes of Blood is exactly two years old today. My dark-themed, m/m vampire…

Qi Awards

17 Jan 202217 Jan 2022

I'm absolutely bowled over to have been nominated in this year's Qi Awards from Queer Indie, in two different categories - Queer Lit: Speculative (Echoes of Blood, Just Visiting, December…

In praise of parks

On Monday we took the afternoon off and drove over to Morecambe. We'd explored the promenade pretty thoroughly on our last couple of visits, so for a complete change we…

Special offer on Echoes of Blood

17 Feb 202117 Feb 2021

It's hard to believe it, but it's almost exactly a year since I published my first ever book on Kindle. That book was Echoes of Blood, a gay vampire romance…